LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe (1)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 11.20 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Seaton Carew had reported that two boys and two girls in a canoe were in difficulties and drifting...
Brett
Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...
Peel
PEEL, Isle of Man, Saturday February 1, 1986: the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat out on service in a moderate northerly breeze.
The fishing vessel Ranger had suffered gear-box failure just 100 yards off... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emma
APRIL 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.45 in the morning the coastguard at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, reported that a barge was drifting towards the targets of the Royal Air Force off Leysdown, and at 11.55 the...
A Small Rowing Boat
JUNE 9TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 8.15 in the evening a resident of Cwmyreglwys telephoned to the life-boat station that a small rowing boat, with a man and two women in it, was being blown out to sea. At nine...
Sonja
OCT. 5TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 2.10 P.M. the Southend coastguard reported that a vessel had stranded on the Skerryvore Reef, Machrihanish.
It was thought that the services of a tug might be...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1931.
£ s. d.
32 18 0 «•—• Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and...
Category: Accounts
The Saint
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—A schooner, The Saint, of Euncorn, bound from France for Portmadoc with hay, straw, and ballast, having been dismasted off The Smalls in a N.W. gale on the 5th January, was taken in tow by a large steamer; but on the...
The Duchess of Kent at the Depot (1)
THE Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood on the 9th of November. She was received by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the committee of management, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown,...
Category: Committee
Scottish Stride
During April and May Keith Donald raised over £5,800 for RNLI Christchurch branch from a sponsored walk the length of Scotland - a distance of 420 miles! Keith completed the marathon on 3 June, having walked all the way from Kirk... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs